Hopefully, upon receiving your "Charlie Chan Collection, Volume One," you will to find a nice, cool spot - away from the hot - for the Blot to note the infamous dot (upper left of the screen) during the plot of "Charlie Chan in Paris," in which Charlie Chan and son, Lee, sought the one who shot Dufresne. The case has many a knot, but our favorite detective, because of his extraordinary abilities and process of thought that he's got, will not spill any beans from the pot until the killer - or killers - are caught!
Evan,
While you were describing how the wood reacts to the heat in your wood shop reminds me of the heat in the Chan movies: The Golden Eye, The Red Dragon, and The Feathered Serpent.
So your post is very ON TOPIC to me! Not to mention that it sounds an awful like the weather we're having here!